Soyuz MS-08

Mission emblem

Mission dates

Mission:

Soyuz MS-08

COSPAR-ID :

2018-026A

Spacecraft:

Soyuz 7K-MS ( GRAY index 11F747)
serial number 738

Launcher:

Soyuz FG (GRAY index 11A511FG)

Call sign:

Гавайи (" Hawaii ")

Crew:

3

Begin:

March 21, 2018, 17:44 UTC

Starting place:

Baikonur 1/5

Space station:

ISS

Docking place:

Poisk

Coupling:

March 23, 2018, 19:40 UTC

Decoupling:

October 4, 2018, 07:57 UTC

Duration on the ISS :

194d 12h 17min

Landing:

October 4, 2018, 11:45 UTC

Landing place:

146 km SE of Sheqasghan , Kazakhstan

Flight duration:

196d 18h 00min

Earth orbits:

3152

Team photo

Richard Arnold, Oleg Artemjew and Andrew Feustel

◄ Before / After ►

Soyuz MS-07
(manned)

Soyuz MS-09
(manned)

Soyuz MS-08 is a mission name for the flight of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station . As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-54S. It was the 54th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS and the 160th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

Main crew

Oleg Germanowitsch Artemjew (2nd space flight), Commander ( Russia / Roskosmos )
Andrew Jay Feustel (3rd space flight), flight engineer, ( USA / NASA )
Richard R. Arnold (2nd space flight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)

Substitute team

Alexei Nikolajewitsch Ovchinin (2nd space flight), commander (Russia / Roscosmos)
Tyler N. Hague (1st spaceflight), flight engineer, (USA / NASA)

As usual, Ovchinin and Hague formed the main team on the next but one mission - Soyuz MS-10 themselves, but ended up back in the Kazakh steppe after a start-up accident. They finally flew to the ISS with Soyuz MS-12 in March 2019.

Mission description

The mission brought three crew members from ISS Expeditions 55 and 56 to the International Space Station.

As with Soyuz MS-07, the classic two-day approach was used again for this mission. The reasons were the delay in the launch from March 15th to March 21st, the need to land Soyuz MS-06 in daylight and better timing for the ISS planning (arriving spacecraft and crew sleep cycles in the following weeks).

The undocking took place on October 4, 2018 at 07:57 UTC, so the ISS Expedition 57 began on the station with Alexander Gerst as commander. The landing took place on the same day approx. 4 hours later in the Kazakh steppe 146 km southeast of Scheskasgan .